The sixth annual Community Science Network Summer Day Camp is being conducted at Russellville High School. The camp consists of two separate week-long sessions geared towards making science an enjoyable experience for kids.

The camp is for kids entering first through entering sixth grades. Lasey said there were about 60 kids in the first session.

“A lot of students come back year after year,” Lasey said. “Parents tell me that the kids talk about science at night.”

The camp draws people from many areas. The three main teachers are from Russellville, Pottsville and Clarksville. The students come from surrounding areas as well. There are even students from out of state including one from Louisiana who makes it year after year.

“They schedule her trip to see her grandparents around when science camp is,” Lasey said. “That says a lot about our teachers.”

The theme for the camp this year is science adventures. There are three different adventures for the kids to go on. The back in time adventure focuses on dinosaurs, the outer space adventure focuses on planets and stars, and the under sea adventure focuses on water. The kids get to dissect squid as part of the under sea session.

The back in time session allows the kids to dig in a sandbox filled with bones, excavate a dinosaur figure from a piece of rock and learn about dinosaurs and other types of fossils.

“Our focus has really been on how we can take clues from fossils and use those clues to infer how these animals lived a long time ago,” Brad Beatty, instructor of the back in time session, said. The first session of the camp will conclude this week. The second session is in July.